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You Could Have Been A Tree

by dzuls

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dzuls heeds plants’ curious music. Sugar and water glisten in xylem and floem; melodies dance from cell to cell, connected by strings of plasmadesmata. You Could Have Been A Tree likewise transports the listener on an epic in miniature. (How many tree songs did your friends write after reading Richard Powers’ The Overstory?) Photosynthesizing lush psychedelia like the Zombies and Beach Boys, dzuls soars on a ray of sunlight and taps into wondrous sounds of contemporaries, like Cate Le Bon.

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Last time
Gravity held you
You could have been a tree
So tall
Tender and sprawling
Drawling with the wind
As you swim in your sleep

What, love?
The last time I held you
You could have been a tree
Slow down
Drowning in meaning
Stealing light's speed
As you fan out your leaves

Last time
Gravity failed you
You could have been a tree
Seeds fall
Weeping like ashes
Down to the ground
Where you swim in a dream

credits

released February 26, 2021
Music and Lyrics: Mark Dzula
Guitar, Vocals: Mark Dzula
Bass: Kent Puckett
Drums: Ian Dicke
Keyboard, Organ, Synth: Kyle Forester
Oboe: Nathan Hubbard
Artwork by Nathan Sensel
Recorded by dzuls
Mixed by Mark Dzula
Mastered by Dan Dzula
Produced by Ian Dicke, Mark Dzula, and Kent Puckett

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dzuls Claremont, California

If you crane your neck just right—if darkness lifts the diamond kite—if bears decamp and the spider spins—you just might hear dzuls in the desert wind at night.

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